Re: Add Tango and Adwaita icons for the toolbar

[Po Lu]

Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:

> I don’t understand, don’t you like the current icons better?

I never said I did.

> Why are they inferior now?

Simply put, because some users might express a preference for these new
icons.

> I certainly would like to have xpm and bpm versions for the new icons,
> but as I said, I’m no graphic designer and have no ability to
> hand-draw them; the only thing I can do is to convert them from png,
> which you also against. (Though, to be fair, even if I have the
> ability, I probably wouldn’t want to, it’s a lot of work to hand draw
> all these icons.)

It's fine to use converted XPM images as-is, but the results of
conversions to PBM should be edited so that the outlines of the
originals remain well-defined, which shouldn't be prohibitively
difficult even for amateurs, speaking from experience.

> They are the “source file” of the png icons. And I didn’t just take
> these svg from else where, I had to make many modifications to
> them. If we want to later export png files with different sizes, or
> tweak the icons, we need these svgs.

Please move them to a separate folder or somewhere they will not be
confused with the icons that are in fact loaded.